Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:31:41 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 Message-ID: <201112121231.42865.matt@chronos.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111211215631.27d6ac90@bhuda.mired.org> References: <1323667359.2790.10.camel@asus> <20111211215631.27d6ac90@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Monday 12 Dec 2011 05:56:31 you wrote:
> These are two different requirements. A "fully supported video
> card" would mean that you can access all the features of the video
> chip set. On 64bit FreeBSD, that pretty much lets out NVidia and
> ATI - neither release full docs or 64bit proprietary drivers for
> FreeBSD (though NVidia has been working on theirs). You'll need to
> try some other manufacturers chip sets.
Um, no. nVidia and the x11/nvidia-driver port supports >6xxx series
cards with full acceleration and VDPAU for >8xxx cards on amd64 and
has done for quite some time. nVidia is currently the *only* way to go
for fully supported graphics past basic DDX. Radeons can be coerced
into some semblance of 3D support but there's no xvmc or stream decode
support at all for us. fglrx has it, but that's Linux only and isn't
as well supported as VDPAU on things like MythTV and mplayer.
I have an HTPC running FreeBSD into a generic "full HD" 32" LCD and
the el-cheapo GeForce 210 in that box with the ports nvidia-driver
binary blob works fine with full 1920x1080 resolution over HDMI on
amd64. It even supports the on-board Azalia (snd_hda(4)) capabilities
of that connection so I don't have to faff about with speakers.
F the OP's I:
xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIGLX" "True"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "False"
Option "DPI" "80x80" # Some Chinese imports don't supply
# the correct EDID information.
DisplaySize 695 390 # See above, same reason.
EndSection
Section "Device"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "DamageEvents" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "metamodes" "1920x1080@60 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
$ ls /var/db/pkg | grep nvidia
nvidia-driver-285.05.09
nvidia-settings-285.05.09
$ pciconf -lv
[...]
vgapci0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x0a6510de
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'Nvidia 200 Series (GeForce 210)'
class = display
subclass = VGA
hdac0@pci0:3:0:1: class=0x040300 card=0x00000000 chip=0x0be310de
rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
class = multimedia
subclass = HDA
In /boot/loader.conf (to get HDMI audio running):
dev.hdac.0.polling="1"
hw.snd.default_unit="1"
$ uname -m
amd64
--
Matt Dawson
MTD15-RIPE
matt@chronos.org.uk
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